Member statements

In Solidarity with Heathfield High School and Wesley Neumann We note with concern recent revelations regarding the disciplinary hearing process of Heathfield High School principal, Wesley Neumann [...]

Save Our ECD Workforce: We Are Running Out Of Time Media release by the ECD & Basic Education Working Group of the C-19 People Coalition [3rd February 2021] The Early Childhood Development [...]

30 January 2021 URGENT To: Dr Tony Fauci and Dr Rochelle Walensky And to: Dr David Kessler; Dr Vivek Murthy; and Dr Marcella Nunez-Smith Per e-mail URGENT – VACCINE ACCESS IN SOUTH AFRICA [...]

Date: Thursday 28 January Time: 11h00 – 11h45 AM Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4sRp4zgJQYOVMUWvSwhWDg Members of the media are invited to a press conference on the [...]

For Immediate Release 25 January 2021 As the death toll of the second wave of COVID-19 continues to devastate the country and lockdown Level 3 is extended by at least six weeks, the government [...]

25 January 2021 Dear Mr President, We write to you at a time when you are understandably grief stricken at the loss of Honourable Minister Jackson Mthembu. We send you our sincere condolences, [...]

On Friday, 15 January 2021, social grant claimants – mostly those with disabilities and chronic illnesses – stood in long, congested queues outside the Bellville SASSA office. They [...]

The Children’s Amendment Bill does not sufficiently protect the rights of children with disabilities. It is silent on special care centres for learners with disabilities. These centres are NGOs [...]

For the attention of the Committee Secretaries; Mr D Arends and Mr L Nodada  Submission produced and endorsed by: #PayTheGrants of the Cash Transfers subgroup and the Education subgroup of the [...]

For Immediate Release 13 November 2020  Global South Against Xenophobia (GSAX) of the COVID-19 People’s Coalition strongly condemns the Department of Home Affairs’ decision to deport 20 asylum [...]